Best politics & climate-change Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

“The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.”

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Book:The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“In Australia, average temperatures have risen almost one degree since 1910, and each decade since the 1940s has been warmer than the one before. That warming is real. Its consequences are real. And it will change our lives in real and practical ways.”

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Author:Julia Gillard

“Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.”

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Author:Desmond Tutu

“I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face.”

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Author:David Cameron

“I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.”

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Author:John F. Kerry

“The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“In sectors like energy, I haven't been arguing for more spending per se; I've been arguing that it doesn't make sense for us to spend $4 billion subsidizing an oil industry that's mature and very profitable. We should be using that money to finance clean energy of the future.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Climate action is central for the future of our planet.”

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Author:Jose Manuel Barroso

“Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.”

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Author:Jerry Brown

“Our climate is changing. And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it may be - given the devastation it is wreaking - should be enough to compel all elected leaders to take immediate action.”

“[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.”

“I don't feel passionately about politics, i'm not a political person. Is it easy for me to get fired up about someone's position on climate change? No, it's not. On most of these issues, I can see both sides.”

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Author:Rachel Maddow

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact.”

Source: The Works [of] John Adams, Second President of the United States: Life of John Adams

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.”

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Author:Nancy Pelosi

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